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Friday, August 9, 2013

I have in my library
the book The Revelation Record: A Scientific and Devotional Commentary on
the Prophetic Book of the End of Times[i]
by Henry M. Morris – a commentary on the final book of the bible and a sort of
bookend companion piece to his similarly named commentary on Genesis. And it is a howler, ridiculousness on nearly
every page, far too many to share them all...

There is the old
proverb that says, “If all you have is a hammer everything looks like a nail.” Replace that hammer with Young-Earth Creationism
and you’ll get an idea of what Morris’ books (even those not specifically about
Creationism) are like. For him everything – everything – leads back to
creation. Every question, every issue.

And that leads him to
some very weird and problematic statements.
Like the following in his commentary on Revelation 4: 11 “Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory
and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure
they are created.” Now it’s pretty easy to see how he gets from this
passage back to creationism; the path is pretty clear. The word “created” is in there twice. The problem is what he makes of it:

“Before God can truly be known as Redeemer, He must first be believed and acknowledged
as Creator. [ii]

How’s that? It’s impossible to accept the salvation of
God without first believing in him as the creator? This is the litmus test that Morris puts on
the Christian faith. Don’t believe in a
literal 24 hour 6 day creation 6,000 years ago?
You’re not a real Christian. You
can’t truly know God until you believe he created the world. According to Morris you can’t be a Christian
if you accept the evidence for evolution.
You can’t be a Christian – not a true
Christian if you believe the earth is billions of years old.

The jailer called for
lights, rushed in and fell trembling before Paul and Silas. He then brought them out and asked, “Sirs,
what must I do to be saved?”

They replied, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and
you will be saved—you and your household, but first acknowledge that God
created the world in a literal period of time not exceeding 144 hours …”

Acts 16: 29 -31 HMV
(Henry Morris Version)

[i]
Morris, Henry M. The Revelation Record: A Scientific and Devotional
Commentary on the Prophetic Book of the End of Times Tyndale House
Publishers, Inc, Wheaton IL, 1983